Sunday, December 27, 2009

From Light to Darkness to YOU!

The Lord said “Let there be light” and the earth was created. Well, this Christmas, a gentleman said, “Let there be darkness” and magic was manifested.

The magical spell of the darkness stayed on. It stayed on even when the darkness slowly transformed into light and reality. It stayed on even as the sunlight was ushered in through the tiny door down the hall-way. It stayed on even after the tiny beam of light from “somewhere up above” ceased to illuminate the magnanimous screen before me. It stayed on even as I walked through the same tiny door with the multitudes as they chirped gleefully to forage the perfect place to relieve their itching taste-buds and satiate their gastric yearnings. It stayed on my way back home – totally oblivious to everything around me. It stayed on as I write this. It probably has stayed on you as you read this.

What was it about 3 Idiots that struck a chord almost instantly with everyone who saw it? What was it about the director’s rendition of an author’s possibly embellished story of three students slugging it out for four years through the lows of dismal scores and the highs of booze with all the circus happening around holding them in place between the two extremes and keeping us entertained all through? No doubt that its depiction of emotions was so flawlessly real – so much so that it must have made you pull out a handkerchief and dab your moist eyes at some point in time in the movie. As also did it get you laughing so hard that your teeth and cheeks hurt after a long time as you clenched on to your tummy and your seat. It must have sent you on a trip down the memory lane – making all the people and places come alive and flash past your eyes that have oh! so very touched your lives! I was struggling to find and pin point to that one particular magical ingredient that did us all in! But then it struck me – it was us! Each and every single one of us! The portrayal of characters, events, and emotions – all of it was all that we have been through in our own lives! It truly was just us!

Accolades, applauses and laurels to the director. This movie is a testimony to the message that it gives out – Pursue excellence in your passion and success would have to follow you!

The song goes – AALLL IJJJ WELL! Ah well, my take-home from the movie – All is, well, within you! :-)